Ebrahim Gabriels – Jumuah Lecture 26 February 2021

Smell Rahman. Rahim

Alhamdulillah, Rabbi lahalaminosalatus, Salah Mahala

ashrafil Mursaleen say Dina Wahab, wahabina, Muhammad, sallAllahu,

Sadi wa Yasir, Lee Amri, wahlum, milisani of kaukauli, Allahu,

alasi torfata in in Wala. Akal nalik,

my beloved mothers and fathers and beloved sisters and brothers and

honorable youth,

and our Honorable President of the United ulama Council of South

Africa and first deputy president of the MCC the honorable molab

buchalik.

I greet you all with the universal greetings of love and peace and

mercy. Assalamu. Alaikum. Warahmatullahi wa barakatuh.

We thank Allah for all the favors that Allah has bestowed upon us,

and we thank Allah for granting us again the honor and the privilege

to be in the Jumuah. And

we thank Allah for the greatest favor, and that is that Allah has

selected us to be part of the ummah of la ilaha, illallah,

Muhammad, rasulallah. We are not believers. We are not Muslims. By

luck or by chance.

Allah says He, Allah has chosen you, he has selected you

to be part of the ummah of la ilaha, illallah, Muhammad,

rasulallah. So we can't thank Allah enough,

and we bear testimony that no one has got the right to be worshiped

except Allah alone,

and we also be testimony that our beloved Nabi Muhammad Sallallahu

Sallam is the final and the greatest message of Allah Al

qawil, the one that said

mansallah Alaya salatan SallAllahu, Biha salallah Ali Biha

ashram.

Just imagine the NABI Muhammad said to us, if you make time

just to put one Salah under Rasulillah, then Allah makes time

to put 10 Salah word from Allah on you. And if you make time to put

100 Salah word under Rasul Illah, then Allah makes time. Can you

imagine? Can you believe it? Then Allah makes time to put 1000

Salawat, 1000 mercy from Allah on you.

We are the most blessed people in the world, subhanAllah, so how

fortunate are those Muslims who make time to put salawat and

Allah's most beloved, our beloved, Nabi Muhammad Ali said to Muslim,

so be of those fortunate people, the most fortunate people, and you

will be the most fortunate also that they've Kiyama, because you

will be called right to the front according to Rasulillah, so that

you can enter the Jannah with with the shafa of Rasulillah, because

you were one of those Muslims who have put the most Salah word On

the Rasulillah, sallAllahu, sallam. So once again, join us in

putting Salawat on. Rasulullah Ali said, waslam, and we know the

Malaika are ready to take our Salawat from here, from Portland's

Cape Town, right to Medina, to Munawwara, and those Malaika will

present it, our Salawat to the NABI Muhammad Ali said To uslam

Allah

um Sally ala

say Dina

muhammadin,

Lee,

Nabi,

Medina Nabi on me

Lee was ALLAH had an abhil Kareem, we ask Allah subhana wa Taala in

this Holy Hour of Jumaa to put Salawat in Salaam in barakah and

our beloved Nabi Muhammad. Listen to Salam and an all the brothers

of Rasulillah, of the Ambien bur Salim and all their families and

friends, wahitami, Wakita maku, mahitam al muslimin. And we also

ask Allah in this Holy Hour of Juma.

Allah to grant me and your honorable selves and each and

every Muslim in the world the most beautiful ending and may Allah

raise us the Day of Qiyamah under the banner of our beloved Nabi

Muhammad, sallAllahu, sallamma, Allah. After that, oh beloved

servants of Allah, Itta Allah, be mindful of Allah. Be conscious of

Allah. Be fearful of Allah at all times. What a to your own and be

obedient to Allah. Come in for indeed, in the whole world, no one

is more happier and no one is more successful than the one that is

obedient to Allah and obedient to our beloved, Nabi Muhammad,

sallAllahu, sallam, wala, moanazili and Noel did Allah says

in the Holy Quran in Suratul Isra, but I don't want to be lamely

Shelton, rajimillahir,

rahmanir, Rahim

Subah, Abadi, la Ilam min al masjid, Dil Harami, Lal masjidil,

al

Masjid Al Harami. Il masjidil, Akon salavi, baratna, haulin Nuria

hum in ya this is the month of rajap,

And

this is the

month in which our beloved Nabi Muhammad Ali said to Islam, went

on this amazing and miraculous journey of the Isra And the miara.

This is the time, and this is the month to speak and highlight the

issue of Majid Al Aqsa,

the first Qibla of the Muslim ummah.

And one of the questions that we need to ask, Why did Allah make

Majid Al Aqsa the first Qibla for the Muslim ummah?

Rasulullah Ali said Muslim lived in Makkah, but the NABI Muhammad

had to make Salah in the direction of Majd Al Aqsa,

and for one year, and about five or six months in Madina till

munara, the NABI Muhammad and the muslimeen had to make Salah in the

direction of Majd Aqsa,

and then the Qibla was changed. But why first? Majli Aksa, you

know? What is the answer? So that the Muslim ummah must never, ever

forget Masjid Al Aqsa.

So let it be known to the whole world that it is the duty

and responsibility

of us as Muslims to defend our holy places. And Majid Al Aqsa is

the third holiest masjid for all Muslims. First Majid al Harami

Makkah, and then the Masjid nabubi Medina, and then Masjid Al Aqsa in

Jerusalem.

So we it is our duty to defend and protect Masjid Al Aqsa, Masjid Al

haram, Masjid nabui, each and every masjid,

we can proudly say as Muslims

that we, the Muslim ummah, have protected the churches in

Jerusalem,

including the holiest church for all Christians, because when our

leader said, Naomi, went to Jerusalem

and he wanted to make salah

the Christians and the leadership of the Christians offered, said,

na Omar to make Salah in their church. And he said, No, I'm not

going to make in the church, because I've I'm going to make

Salah in the church. The Muslims that they'll come coming after me,

they would say that Omar made Salah. So we going to change the

masjid, and we don't want the church to be changed to a masjid

that is the honor and the dignity of the Muslim ummah,

the greatest leader, our

beloved Nabi Muhammad. Listen to Islam as taught and instructed the

Muslim ummah, when you are at war with others, you don't touch and

you don't harm a church or a synagogue or any religious place

that he that these are the principles.

Of the Muslim ummah,

but at the same time, we want to say to the world that we will

sacrifice and give our lives to defend our holy places, and that

is our right.

Imagine if we, as the Muslim ummah would year

that there's a plan to destroy and to demolish the majli Haram in

Makkah, ya salam,

oh the Mazda Nabu in Medina Wallahi. I swear by Allah the

Muslims right around the world, they will stand up.

They will stand up in a way,

when they tried to

degrade our beloved Nabih Muhammad, listened to Islam and

insult our beloved Nabih Muhammad, the Muslims all over the world

stood up now, likewise, if any force or any country would like to

destroy Majd haram in Makkah or majna in Madina, the same will

happen right around the world.

So now the time has come to do the very same for the third haram of

the Muslim ummah,

the only place, and let me emphasize the only place in the

world we are where Allah subhana wa gathered all the ambiya,

124,000

ambiya. Can you imagine such a gathering? The only place it

happened is in Maju haram, on

the night of Israel in Maharaj.

Imagine the cream and the best of creation, the prophets of Allah

and who led the Salah, the greatest prophet and the leader of

the prophets and the master of the prophets, our beloved, Nabi

Muhammad Ali, said to Islam,

do the world think that we as Muslims would allow any force or

any Government to destroy that Masjid?

No, my dear ones, are you aware

that there are people who have the planes plans ready to destroy and

to the demolish Majid Al Aqsa,

and they claim

that that was before the temple of Solomon

they falsely claim

now, now my my beloved brothers and sisters.

For Who are you going to believe Allah says they are saying. They

are saying. The Zionists and the Israelis are saying there's not

actually a masla aksah

Allah is saying the Quran. Subhanallah Astra be abudihi,

lahilan, Minal, mazdil, haram il masdil Aksa. It's part of the

Qur'an. It's a ayah in the Quran. It is part of our belief.

So are you going to allow these people to they'll know that that

is not the truth. Allah is not speaking the truth. Astaghafi

Allah, so they won't be able to, although they are making

agreements with so many so called Muslim countries and Arab

countries,

these are corrupt governments, but the Muslim ummah is not going to

buy into that. I am in ya rapa al Amin.

So my dear ones,

they these forces are every now and then testing the waters

and testing the response of the Muslim ummah when it comes to Maju

Aqsa.

So here from Al Masjid Al Rabia for the liberation of Mazda Aqsa,

we want to say to the Israeli Government

and the United States government that we as Muslims, we don't fear

you.

We only fear Allah,

lahola wala kuwata ilbillah,

power and strength does not belong to you, Mister Netanyahu and

Mister Biden, or whoever is the president of United States of

America, the only power and the real power belongs to Allah.

So honorable.

Dreams,

let us now hear the good news. And

the good news is that Allah has guided and inspired some of our

leadership in the world

to initiate and introduce

100 days campaign

for the people of Al Quds for the people of Al Aqsa,

and it is called Ibadan Lana, a word that Allah used in the Quran

Ibadan Lana

a campaign and a program

wherein we give our full support to the people of Al Quds,

our moral support, our spiritual support, our financial support,

and all types of support needed.

The idea is to give support to the very people who are ultimately

going to liberate Masjid Al Aqsa,

and those are the peoples.

And you have seen so many videos,

even the ladies, even the women, they are not afraid. They're not

they are not afraid. Let me say this clear. They are not afraid to

put their lives on the line in defense of Majid Al Aqsa, and

don't talk about the youth, young boys, 12 years, 1314, even

younger. They know that Allah has placed him their Allah coulds to

defend majal Aksa on behalf of each and every Muslim in this

world.

They are not free to die, and they know if they die in the process to

defend majli Al Aqsa, they will go straight to Jannah.

They will be of the Shuhada.

So what must mean?

As I've said, the idea is to give support to the very people who are

ultimately going to liberate and free Mazda aksar.

I hope that we as Muslims understand that fully.

That is the Promise of Allah. So never what. Never mind what the

Israelis are going to do and the Americans are going to do

ultimately, Masjid Aqsa will be free, because Allah says in Quran,

Wali yada, khulu, Masjid luhu, and they will enter the masjid again,

as done before.

They will enter the masjid against his Allah in Quran, and we, as

Muslims, we have been guaranteed by Allah, right at the beginning

of the Quran, that this Quran, each and every verse and each and

every word in this Quran, la rebafi, there's no doubt in the

words of Allah.

So Inshallah, after the Juma, we're going to have the official

lawns, and though nobody must go away outside the masjid for this

campaign, Ibadan Lana,

because we're going to ask each and every Muslim, not only South

Africa, but all over the world, this is the time now. The time is

now right for each and every Muslim to rise to the occasion.

And

I just want to remind the Muslims of the world, because fortunately,

we've got Facebook and social media and you can go right around

the world. I just want to give you a friendly reminder

that Allah is going to ask you the Dev qiyama, what did you do for

mazil aksah

Maslow,

aksha was in danger.

Mas aksha was under occupation, under siege. What did you do to

defend

the first Qibla of the Muslim Ummah that I've made the first

kippala. But

dear ones, I also want to remind you

of this important Hadith that you've heard before.

But all of us, including me, needs to be reminded of this hadith

every time that Rasulullah says, Malam yatam bi Amri, muslimina,

falei sa mean those who are not concerned about the affairs of the

Muslim ummah, then you are not part of this ummah. How can you

claim to be part and you're not worried about the ummah?

That's why we are called ummah. We not call individuals.

We are Ummah, global Ummah, because we are concerned for one

another. And the NABI Muhammad says the similar truth and the

example of this ummah in the feelings for one another, in the

concern for one another, in the love and compassion for one

another is like one single human body. Says Rasulullah

Alhamdulillah, for this, for this beautiful description of this

ummah, if one part of the body is in pain, the whole body suffers of

sleeplessness and fever, says Rasulullah,

what a beautiful example.

If there's some small part of body, the small little toe pains.

You can't sleep. Can you sleep?

So if there's pain anywhere in this ummah, we must be so

concerned that some of the night we can't even sleep, because we

are worried about that part of the ummah. And the most crucial issue

for the Muslim ummah today is there's a lot of issues. There's

Kashmir, there's Syria, there's Iraq, and we know, and we admit we

need to do so much in Yaman, so many places. But the most

important, the most crucial issue, is Maslow Aksa, and once Masjid Al

Aqsa is going to be resolved and be liberated. All the other

countries, inshallah will be resolved.

So my, my dear ones, I've made it a note to ask you and to advise

you,

please, please be don't be of those who are not concerned about

the affairs what is happening in Mazur Aksa

and in Palestine,

beloved ones,

one of the best ways for you and For me to yahish in Palestine

is is for you and for me to get closer to Allah, subhanaw, taala,

Allah,

and for you and me to be more obedient to Allah.

We are just a month and a half away from the month of Ramadan.

So please prepare yourselves for the month of Ramadan.

Do lots of istiqar.

Take your tasbih

and say 200 times everyday. Astaq illallah, 500 times, 1000 times,

2000 times. Just imagine you are going to accept what I'm, what I

advise now

you will be, you'll be ready for the month of Allah. Allah,

read the Quran, connect with the Quran from now onwards, until

Ramadan and beyond Ramadan,

do lots of vikrula. Do lots of Salawat, Rasulillah, do lots of

Sadaqah,

and please don't miss one salah. Says, imagine the Muslims of the

world are going to decide that each and every Muslim is going to

Salah five times per day. Allah Akbar, the victory in Palestine

and Al Quds will get closer and closer and closer. So this begin

with yourself. Make sure that you make your Salah five times per

day, on time with hushu, not quickly salah. You are really

connected to Allah. And in your Salah, you are making dua Ya

Allah. Please liberate Maslow aksar Allah,

and then the change will come, and that is confirming the Quran in

Allah.

Allah will never change the conditions of a people or the

condition of a people, unless they change within themselves. Each and

every one of them change. So all of us, we need to change. We can't

be the same like last year. We must be different people. We must

stand up in the middle of the night cry in front of Allah. That

is real concern for the Ummah, and that is real concern for majla

Aksa, lip service is not enough,

yay. Walaina, Amanu, Lima Taku, Luna malataf Alun, kabura makata

in Allah and Taku Lu malaf Alun, oh, you believe. Why you just use

Why don't you? Why? Why do you just talk and there's no action?

Allah is asking the question. Lima Taku Luna malata, why do you say

things and you don't put it in practice. Kabula makata in the

law. It is so ugly in the eyes of Allah to say, and you don't

practice.

Abu lahiba, tuba illallahu, my beloved ones make tawba to Allah

and

ask ALLAH forgive.

This for indeed our beloved Nabi Muhammad says, Kulu niya Adam

khataun wakhata in the tawabun. Each and every child of Nabi Adam

makes mistakes and wrongdoings,

but the best of them are those who return to Allah and

Jamaat must mean Alhamdulillah, we can proudly say from this member

for the 32nd year, we don't forget to remind our brothers and sisters

about the five times salah,

and I don't get even boring and tired to remind the Muslims every

time, because there are so many of them that are in need of these

reminders. And it might just be today that that person is going to

grasp

and decide, yes, from now onwards, I'm not going to miss one Salah

Allah, and you will give strength to the Ummah and strength to your

family.

So may Allah grant that each one of us here in the masjid, and each

and everyone that listens to us on social media,

if you're if you are still neglect for the Salah, I want to say to

you, my dear brother or sister, this is your moment.

This is your day,

and the first step to Jannatul. Fill those because the salah is

the key to your ultimate success. And you know what? The

matriculants have just received their results, and some of them

got distinctions in history, biology, geography, 90% and 90%

but he failed in mathematics. He's a total failure.

So coming the day of qiyama, you've given million sadaqa. You

went for Hajj 20 times, for Umrah 50 times, and you look after the

poor. But the very first thing that Allah is going to question

your day of qiyama says Rasulullah is your Salah,

and if you pass in your Salah, Allah will overlook all the other

subjects, but if you fail in your Salah, you're a total failure.

My dear ones, just before I'm going to ask malabda Halik just to

say a few words, because it won't be correct that if the first

deputy president of the MGC is here and also the President of the

United ulama Council of South Africa, it's a very important and

a key position that Molina, just for a Baraka, say A few words to

us, but just before that,

we want to remind everybody again that Sunday is a very, very

crucial day for our masjid,

and we are appealing to everybody to support the masjid, the

maintenance of the masjid and so many other projects of the masjid,

the time doesn't allow us, but just for example, We can establish

a Educational Resource Center, which is so important for the

community and especially for the youth. So Inshallah, from 1030

until 230 please connect with us on Facebook. You can even bring

your sadaqa here to the masjid on Sunday, but please make sure that

we going to make Sunday a great success in ya rabal Alamin, and

now I give over To Malala

beer.

Salaam Alaikum to my beloved Sheik Ibrahim, our staff and our leader.

I said it the other day, and I would like to repeat it once

again. Sheik Ibrahim is my and our leader.

There's three things that they quickly just want to mention

this morning when I woke up knowing the fact that this is a

very important day in the launch of a very important program. I

actually so much aspire that I should go in ziara, the cover of

Mawlana, iksan Hendrix.

And unfortunately I didn't get there. But maybe I should make Nia

to still go in ziyara, it is good to ziara the maqabir on a young

muljumua

and to ziara the maqabir and the pubu and the Kuba Susan say it is

a reminder to our own death. But Malana itsan and Sheik Ibrahim,

they brought the flag of Al masjid, Al Aqsa al Mubarak,

vibrant to the thinking and the vision of Sheik Nadeem Muhammad

Rahmatullah.

Sheik Nadeem Muhammad was a father figure to many of the young

generations of ulama who are seniors today. And Sheik Nadeem

Muhammad Rahmatullah at the time.

Spoke about our responsibility. I'm talking many years back

towards al Masjid Al Aqsa, Al Mubarak today, Alhamdulillah,

Rabbi Lamin you Masjid Rabia, you are so blessed to have Shaykh

Ibrahim as your Imam. May Allah preserve and protect and grant him

long Umar ngudi Alf, the second point that I quickly want to make

is this coming to the masjid today reminded me about our departure in

2011

on the long journey, which were known as

Africa one aid convoy and Wallahi, our brothers and some of them are

in the masjid here. We got in our vans and Comis, and you'd recall

how the convoy left from here. And whilst being on journey we we got

the month of Ramadan in a news of Ramadan, and the first Ramadan as

we entered in Mazi taqwa in Port Elizabeth, the Adan went off as

salatul Isha and the Jamaat that were traveling from Cape Town, we

joined that particular Masjid on this particular Africa, one convoy

the journey towards liberating al masjid, Al Aqsa, Al Mubarak. We

are saying to the Zionists, we'll continue until Majid Al Aqsa, a

Palestinian people are liberated and free.

The third point that I want to make is, may Allah keep this

member vibrant with Haq, with truth and with other and with

justice. May Allah keep this masjid and this Imam and this

member vibrant to share the kalimatulak and the truth

and may Allah preserve Shaykh Ibrahim. This Masjid has seen many

projects, many programs, many efforts, and that's the reason

why, uniquely, when this Masjid was was renovated, those of us who

are guests here, you will see the design of this particular carpet.

Sheik Ibrahim wanted to make sure that the masjid name are being

renamed from Al Masjid to Rabia, the fourth Masjid that was

established in Mitchell's plain, to connecting it with Al Masjid Al

Aqsa, Mubarak. And therefore we say, May Allah keep this member

strong, vibrant with the AK until Masjid Al Aqsa and further until

the journey Inshallah, Aziz, until qiyama, with the truth and justice

inshallah Aziz. Therefore these carpets that you see here carries

that particular message, whoever, when, whenever you come into this

Masjid into remind you about my duty towards al masjid, Al Aqsa,

Mubarak, JazakAllah masala, Wali Kumar, Ahmad Allah, katu,

tagbeard,

taqbir,

mashaAllah, shukran of the Khaliq, the president of United ulama

Council of Africa. And may Allah preserve Malana for many, many

years and take the Muslim committers of Africa forward to

another great level, arm in Yoruba, lahalami, we've been asked

to make the ah, please make the offer my wife, my Muna, will be 80

years old tomorrow from her husband, children, grandchildren

and great grandchildren, the Allah grant and barakah and long life.

And maker of the sale you're also going to make the offer of our

beloved brother, Alvi Clayton. He's also a very, very sick and

one of our former committee members, Bucha Muhammad vahi, also

a positive and sick and had a heart attack. And Alhamdulillah is

much better. He's at home, but we make Noah for him and for Alvin.

All those who are sick and afflicted with the corona, Allah

must grant him speedy and a fully recovery. And once again, all

those who have passed on of the of the loved ones in umasi and

everybody else, may Allah grant him Nur in the qubor and grant him

Jannah to fit those who SallAllahu, sayyna, Muhammad

Alhamdulillah.